HSPA12A and renal cell carcinoma: Hspa12a encodes heat shock protein A12A which is an atypical member of the heat shock protein 70 family and has been shown to be downregulated in diseases such as ischemic stroke, schizophrenia, and renal cell carcinoma (Pongrac et al., 2004; Mao et al., 2018; Min et al., 2020).